Collaboration is a significant focus as well, allowing users to create course forums, wikis and more. For this final category of Blackboard alternatives, we went straight to the reviews left by real LMS users on Software Advice and found the three systems similar to Blackboard that were rated the highest.
Products identified as most asked-about alternatives in the previous section were omitted. Note: You can learn more about our Alternatives methodology here. Highly rated and more affordable than Blackboard Learn, Accord LMS is a great option to consider for schools and businesses alike. Configurable as a cloud-based or on-premise solution, Accord LMS allows for administrative distribution between multiple users and a blended learning approach combining e-learning courses, instructor-led training, webinars and more.
Corporate users can brand their Accord LMS solution and train outside parties such as customers and channel partners through independent portals, while large universities can implement social learning and role-based groups to engage over , students.
Reporting is one area where the system still needs some work, though. Where Blackboard Learn fails to adequately tie employee training to other strategic HR initiatives, Halogen Learning succeeds. Offered as a stand-alone module within the larger Halogen TalentSpace HR suite, Halogen Learning is a cloud-based LMS that integrates training with performance management to ensure your courses are driving real results within the business. Within Halogen Learning, users can map out competency strengths and weaknesses for each individual worker, so the system can actually recommend a learning path with ideal courses to get them up to speed.
A spokesperson for the college said that change alone wouldn't have been enough to admit him. After Demirkapi began to find bugs in Blackboard and Follett's software, he says he struggled to get the companies to take him seriously. In the winter of , he initially tried to contact Follett by asking his school's director of technology to contact the company on his behalf. But as Demirkapi remembers it, she told him the company had dismissed his concerns.
He says he later sent messages himself to Blackboard and Follett via email and Follette's contact page. Blackboard initially thanked him for his note and said it would investigate, but didn't follow up.
Follett ignored him altogether. So a few months later, Demirkapi took a more typical approach for a juvenile hacker. Among Follett's bugs, he found that could add a "group resource" to his school's account, a file that would be available to all users and, more importantly for Demirkapi, that would trigger a push notification with the resource's name to everyone in his school district who had Follett's Aspen app installed.
Demirkapi sent a message reading "Hello from Bill Demirkapi : " out to thousands of parents, teachers, and students. That stunt got him suspended from school for two days. Over the course , after Demirkapi enlisted the help of his school district's director of technology and Carnegie Mellon's CERT Coordination Center, he says the companies finally began to listen.
With Blackboard, whose sensitive data he had accessed in the process of testing the software's security, he worked out a contract that stated the company wouldn't sue him, and in return he'd keep the company's vulnerabilities secret until they were fixed—after refusing an initial draft in which Blackboard tried to prevent him from telling anyone even after the patches went through.
However, there were always bugs in the system, even though we updated constantly. The Blackboard app was also very limited. Too many bugs and freezes; many of my students had issues with accessing links when they used different internet browsers. Good for a small school or business, but not larger ones. Statistics for Blackboard showed that it was the most user-friendly for a variety of ages, and we have students of all backgrounds and ages, so it was imperative to find something adaptable. I like that it does a little bit of everything.
Some other professors at my university liked to rely on BB Learn for everything, including video-conference and online exams. Being as feature rich as it is, BB Learn has the problem that the user interface might be very challenging for some people. I guess you either really like it or really don't, so when it doesn't click you can get frustrated by a lot of things. Still, for the people loving it, they will make the most out of it.
One of the best tools out there. Easy to recommend for general purposes. I like that if you're a power user and your students get into it, this is probably the only eLearning tool you will ever need.
It has everything from homework assignments to actual video-conference; besides of the usual tools like forums and work groups. The online exams are very useful, specially if you don't want to manually grade tons and tons of tests. I don't like the user interface. Most of the tools are one more click away than I think they should. Very useful things like the exams are really powerful, but creating them is so awkward that sometimes you prefer to just handle a document.
Blackboard Learn is a good software, but it needs some updating to look more current. If it looked more current, customers could take advantage of all the functions of this software.
I used it in a very basic way simply because I did not like the look of the interface. This software allowed me to view my assignments for college and check my grades as well. Instructors used Blackboard to post important announcements and assignments. Overall, the software was easy to navigate and easy to understand. I liked the "Announcements" board of this software as it allowed professors to post important messages that could be found in a single place.
The "Alert" feature was also very useful when there was a grade or assignment update. Blackboard has many features, but I was not able to take full advantage of them because of how the platform itself looked.
The Blackboard platform, especially the black bar on the left hand side, was always confusing and the site itself looked pretty old. When my university actually switched over to Canvas, students missed the layout of Blackboard, but not the actual software, which looked like it was several years old.
If the actual interface looked better, I think it would be easier to navigate. The mobolebapp is not functional, there is no gamification nor maestries.
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